Amazon Expedition: Lesbian Feminist Anthology

"Before the 1970s, lesbians could publish their writing in nonspecific collective volumes, but not until 1973, with the publication of Amazon Expedition: A Lesbian Feminist Anthology, edited by Phyllis Birkby, was the lesbian anthology in its own right born." — Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, George Haggerty & Bonnie Zimmerman (eds.)"When lesbians within the gay liberation movement synthesized gay politics with feminist, they started a separate political/cultural development which thousands of women began to identify with. This is what this anthology is about. Culture, herstory, politics, celebration, Lesbianfeminism — one concept: the new womanity." — publisher.Includes:• "The Parable of Mothers and Daughters" and "The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View" by Florence Rush• "Lesbianism and Feminism" by Ti-Grace Atkinson• "The New Misandry" by Joanna Russ• "Emily Dickinson Feminist" by Rebecca Patterson• "High School Crack-up" by Esther Newton• "The Vision and Persecution of Aurora Phelps" by Arlene Kisner, Lois Hart, & Ellen Shumsky• "Return of the Amazon Mother" and "The Comingest Womanifesto" by Jill Johnston• "The More Profound Nationality of Their Lesbianism: Lesbian Society in Paris in the 1920s" by Bertha Harris